DHARMANARAYAN
DASGUPTA

25/08/1939 - 24/10/1997

Artist Profile

BEGINNINGS

He was born in Tripura. His father belonged to the
Maharaja of Tripura`s administrative staff, transferable
job that exposed Dharmanarayan to variety of places
in the state, at a very early age. 1970 He joined the
Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta.

Dharmanarayan Dasgupta in his lifetime remained almost
entirely within the fold of the Calcutta art world,
where he found his foothold. By the late 70`s, he had
evoked a style by which he came to be known, where the
prime medium he worked with was a special genre of egg
tempera on canvas, using a mouth spray for finishing
effect. A recognizable repertoire of characters and
scenes animated his compositions with jocularity, mischief
and satire seen in corpulent babus, buxom ladies and
later on, an array of detached heads and tubular limbs
that disturbingly glow out of still life objects.